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  1. Re:Hyperbole on The Slow Death of Voice Mail · · Score: 1

    All and all, voice mail isn't going anywhere. And it is up to us voice message-menu jedi, to show the young padawans how to press 4 to replay the message, and 9 to delete

  2. Re:our CEO's vm got hacked on The Slow Death of Voice Mail · · Score: 1

    think it was speech-to-text that he tried, and 'terrorfied' was the result...

  3. Re:Joe is not rudimentary! on Book Review: Build Your Own Website: A Comic Guide to HTML, CSS, and WordPress · · Score: 1

    Yes, I also install joe, not just on my PC, but every liveCD/live session I run linux on.

  4. Re:Good! on Sir Richard Branson Quietly Shelves Virgin Submarine Plan · · Score: 1

    PR or not, you have to hand it to the man for dreaming big when we all decided the other way. Sure, you're not going to hit 100% on ALL your targets. But the ones that *do hit will be the ones that matter.

  5. Re:They are also hiring a Farmer on SpaceX Set To Create 300 New US Jobs and Expand Facilities · · Score: 1

    Erm did you read the title as Space sex instead of Space X, that might explain the confusion, in your case.

  6. Re:TheErm did you miss ty are also hiring a Farmer on SpaceX Set To Create 300 New US Jobs and Expand Facilities · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did you read it as Space sex instead of Space X, that might explain the confusion, in your case

  7. Re:Why would this be a joke? on Cardboard Hits Half a Million Mark, Gets an SDK · · Score: 1

    not as sturdy as plastic

    If I remember the steps correctly, the next step in your case would be Order another pizza You owe it to yourself to check it out at least before dropping all that cash on the Occulus (Rift).

  8. Re:Great. More touchscreens. on Ford Ditches Microsoft Partnership On Sync, Goes With QNX · · Score: 1

    So why'd you buy it then?
    No, he meant operating by touch without taking your eyes off the road; he knows/remembers where volume or tuning knobs are and just reaches out to them almost instinctively.

  9. Re:Depends on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 1

    Did you blow your wad when you saw the photo, I did (After all the dirty talk...)

  10. Re: Have Both on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 1

    These two comments carry more information than I was expecting tfa to have.

  11. Finally stuff that matters! on Should IT Professionals Be Exempt From Overtime Regulations? · · Score: 2

    Throw in Orion splashdown news, and there will be hope for slashdot. And Mars.

  12. Re:Shyeah, right. on Is LTO Tape On Its Way Out? · · Score: 1

    Simple. To them 'BC' meant Babylonian calendar. Duh.

  13. Re:Shyeah, right. on Is LTO Tape On Its Way Out? · · Score: 1

    You left out the offsite station wagon. If *that's* on the way out, the mag tapes should worry

  14. Re:What DRIBBLE! on Intel Planning Thumb-Sized PCs For Next Year · · Score: 2

    ..i agree, but I think he was holding back for some reason.

  15. why is it a downside? on Number of Coders In Congress To Triple (From One To Three) · · Score: 1

    Is it because of the rule of threes?

  16. Re:Necessary reading on The Dutch Village Where Everyone Has Dementia · · Score: 2

    And if you were evil in this life, it would be slashdot beta.

  17. Re:Just like grampa on After Four Days, Philae Team Gets to Rest · · Score: 1

    I hope nobody on the Philae team is named Jim. I'd hate to be that guy that wakes him up with the words "He's dead, Jim"

  18. Re:At the risk of sounding pretentious, on The Strangeness of the Mars One Project · · Score: 1

    Hey Kardashians vs. Martians (Kim, Kanye, Chloe and the whole gang vs. the costumed winners of American ninja warrior) might pull in that kind of advertising revenue)

  19. Re:Some technical info for slashdotters on Researchers Simulate Monster EF5 Tornado · · Score: 1

    Good insight in all your comments.

    Adding the car analogy and having the guy miss it---priceless.

  20. Re:One of the most listened to Engineers on "Car Talk" Co-Host Tom Magliozzi Dies At Age 77 · · Score: 1

    I'm with you there. Never even had a chance of tuning in, yet I was lucky enough to buy their book; it made owning a used car not that scary, yet practical in money matters. RIP and thanks for both the show, AND the book

  21. Re:Oh no! on Scotland Builds Power Farms of the Future Under the Sea · · Score: 1

    What are they going to do, bring lots of pepper to match? Each worker will carry the government issue pepper grinder...

  22. News for nerds, it's about the cloud on Peter Kuran:Visual Effects Artist and Atomic Bomb Archivist · · Score: 1

    Mushroom cloud, that is

    *ducks*

  23. Re:Even more than that... on Mozilla Teams Up With Humble Bundle To Offer Eight Plugin-Free Games · · Score: 1

    why does *this* particular bundle show up on Slashdot?

    I guess because THIS one is now in firefox's start/home page.

  24. Re:That's okay.... on Independent Researchers Test Rossi's Alleged Cold Fusion Device For 32 Days · · Score: 1

    well, I'm waiting for the bald old geezer to come and announce "Good news, everyone!"

  25. Re:Normal everywhere on Lennart Poettering: Open Source Community "Quite a Sick Place To Be In" · · Score: 3, Funny

    raising money to hire a hit-man to take him out is NOT acceptable

    What made it extreme was the use of bitcoin *ducks*